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Chunia was a primitive ektopodontid, a distinctive group of Cainozoic Australian possums that may have been specialized seed-eaters. Ektopodontids, first thought to be monotremes, had short faces, large, forward-facing eyes and the most unusual and complex teeth of any marsupial.

Yarala burchfieldi is one of the oldest and smallest bandicoots known, as well as the most archaic. It would have foraged in the forest leaf litter for insects and may have been at least partly carnivorous, like the dasyurids.

Wakaleo vanderleuri was a dog-sized thylacoleonid ('marsupial lion') and one of the largest predators in Australia during the Miocene. Like other thylacoleonids, Wakaleo had teeth that were modified for stabbing and cutting.

Liasis dubudinala is the largest snake known from Australia, estimated to have been about 9 metres in length. The only known specimen of Liasis dubudinala was found at Bluff Downs in northeastern Queensland, and is Pliocene in age (about 4.5 million years old)

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